Xiaomi smartphone will officially enter the Japanese market next year -
by Efe UdinXiaomi smartphone will officially enter the Japanese market next year
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According to recent reports, Xiaomi will officially enter the Japanese smartphone market in 2020. However, there is no report on the specific models to arrive in Japan. The director of Xiaomi’s mobile phone product marketing, Xiao Zhiyuan, confirmed this report in a recent Weibo post. As of now, Xiaomi is available in many countries and regions around the world, with footprints in Asia, Europe, Africa, North America, and South America.
Just last month, Xiaomi opened its official Japanese publicity Twitter account. This shows that the company will soon arrive in the country. Other Chinese mobile phone brands such as Huawei, ZTE, and OPPO are already in the Japanese market.
The Japanese consumer market is relatively small and they have preference for local brands. Foreign brands, especially electronic consumer brands, are difficult to cut in. It is difficult to accept more advanced electronic products. However, the Xiaomi smartphone business will try to carve a niche for itself in Japan.
In the mobile phone market, Japan once owned famous mobile phone brands such as Sony, Sharp, Panasonic, Sanyo, etc. However, the Japanese mobile phone industry was dominated by operators. After the rise of smartphone OEMs, Japan did not follow suit. Thus, the likes of Sharp and Sony are now far behind in the phone manufacturing industry.


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Contents
Introduction
In this article, we would introduce two SEG-2018 expanded abstracts. The first one is about a new learning algorithm for transient electromagnetic method (TEM) inversion, and the second one is about using deep learning to solve FWI. In the following parts, we would discuss about the problems of the two papers and analyze which parts are not well proved. The two papers are listed below.
Algorithm for geosteering inversion
Theory
In traditional method, TEM inversion is based on a theoretically supported forward model, where the underground formation is divided into several layers, the earth model parameters include
- ${\rho}_i$: resistivity of the ith layer.
- $t_i$: thickness of the ith layer.
- $R$: radius of transmitting loop.
- $I$: strength of transmitting current.
- $z$: height of transmitter.
- $h$: height of the receiver.
The above parameters are usually unknown in practical problems, while the following parameters could be defined by other parameters and prior information.
- $r_{te}$: reflection coefficient.
- $\lambda$: beam of electromagnetic wave.
- $\omega$: angular frequency.
- $r$: center offset between the transmitter loop and receiver coil.
Then the inverse problem could be formulated as
where $F$ is the forward model, $\mathbf{x}$ contains the earth model parameters and $\mathbf{d}_{\ast}$ include observed measurements. Hence we know $S$ is the data misfit which should be minimized during the optimization. Denote that $\mathbf{d} = F(\mathbf{x})$, generally the expansion of $S$ could be written as
where
Solving the above stationary point problem, we could get that
The target of this paper is aimed at learning the matrix $\mathbf{K}$, which contains both the first-order and second-order derivatives.
To perform the learning process, the author build a training set which contains a lot of training data pair $(\mathbf{x}^{(i)},~ \mathbf{d}^{(i)}_{\ast})$. Then the training algorithm could be written as
- Select $\mathbf{x}_0$ as initial model.
- $\mathbf{x} = \mathbf{x}_0$.
- For $m = 1,~2,~,3,~\cdots,~M$:
- $\mathbf{K}_m = \arg \min\limits_{\mathbf{K}} \left( \sum_{j=1}^N \lVert \Delta \mathbf{x}^{(j)} - \mathbf{K} \Delta \mathbf{d}^{(j)} \rVert^2_2 \right)$, where $\Delta \mathbf{x}^{(j)} = \mathbf{x}^{(j)} - \mathbf{x}$ and $\Delta \mathbf{d}^{(j)} = F(\mathbf{x}) - \mathbf{d}^{(j)}_{\ast}$.
- $\mathbf{x} = \mathbf{x} + \frac{1}{N} \sum_{j=1}^N \mathbf{K}_m \Delta \mathbf{d}^{(j)}$.
After training, we would get a series of derivatives $\mathbf{K}_m$. After that, in the testing process, we would not need to calculate derivatives from the forward model $F$. Assuming that we have a group of unknown measurements $\mathbf{d}^{(j)}_{\ast}$. Then the testing phase could be defined as
- Select $\mathbf{x}_0$ as initial model, which should be the same as that in training phase.
- $\Delta \mathbf{d} = F(\mathbf{x}) - \mathbf{d}_{\ast}$, $\mathbf{x} = \mathbf{x}_0$.
- For $m = 1,~2,~,3,~\cdots,~M$:
- $\mathbf{x} = \mathbf{x} + \mathbf{K}_m \Delta \mathbf{d}$.
- If RMS is lower than threshold, break.
- $\Delta \mathbf{d} = F(\mathbf{x}) - \mathbf{d}_{\ast}$.
Here we show two results of the proposed method:
| True model and model-based SDM inversion results. (model based) |
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| True model and model-based SDM inversion results. (pixel based) |
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Problem
The main feature of this paper is that the parameter-free descent direction $\mathbf{K}_m$ could be derived from the training set. However, this feature is also the main problem of this paper, because actually $\mathbf{K}_m$ is not fixed for all measurements in any non-linear problem.
Consider that the derivation of $\mathbf{K}_m$, we would know that
Then we would find, if and only if $\mathbf{K}$ is a constant, i.e. the problem is totally linear, $\mathbf{K}$ would not change according to the measurements $\mathbf{d}_{\ast}$, because $\mathbf{J}(\mathbf{x})$ is a function of earth model $\mathbf{x}$. If the model is non-linear, then $\mathbf{J}$ would be different for any different $\mathbf{d}_{\ast}$.
In practice, the descent trajectory of $\mathbf{x}$ would not be the same for the training set and the testing data if we apply the traditional gradient descent methods. However, in this method, the author apply the same direction of training phase on the testing phase. This scheme would not get converged results unless the training set and the testing data are highly similar. The following figure show why the testing phase could not converge well in some cases.
| A schema for training and testing. We use red line to show the proposed method and blue line to show the traditional method. |
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CNN-FWI
Theory
In this paper, the author propose a CNN to perform FWI method. The main idea of this paper is very similar to our method, while the main difference of this paper is that the network in this paper does not have any input parameter. All of the values in input layer of this network are set as constant (1).
Training such a network could be divided into two phases. The following part show the workflow of training phase.
| Flow chart of training CNN. |
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Training this network could be described by:
- Phase 1:
- Initialize the network parameters by normal distribution. The input layer of the network is set fixed by 1.
- Using the initial guess of the velocity model $\mathbf{v}_i$ to train the network by model misfit $\lVert \mathbf{v} - \mathbf{v}_i \rVert^2_2$, where $\mathbf{v} := \mathcal{G}(\mathbf{w})$ is the network prediction.
- Phase 2:
- Denote the error function (which is also the data misfit) as $\mathcal{E} := \frac{1}{2} \lVert P (\mathbf{u}) - \mathbf{d} \rVert^2_2 = \frac{1}{2} \left\lVert P \left( \mathbf{M}^{-1}(\mathbf{v}) \mathbf{f} \right) - \mathbf{d} \right\rVert^2_2$, where P is an operator that extracts the amplitudes at the receiver positions from the frequency-domain wavefield $\mathbf{u}$, and $\mathbf{d}$ is the frequency-domain complex-valued observed data. $\mathbf{M}(\mathbf{v})$ is the impedance matrix containing the velocity model $\mathbf{v}$ while $\mathbf{u}$ is the frequency source.
- Training the CNN by data misfit $\mathcal{E}$, the back-propagation could be described by two steps: $\nabla_{\mathbf{w}} \mathcal{E} (\mathbf{w}) := \nabla_{\mathbf{v}} \mathcal{E} (\mathbf{v}) \frac{\partial \mathbf{v}}{\partial \mathbf{w}}$.
The results are shown below. The author compare proposed CNN-FWI with other methods. Note that the CNN-FWI is trained by Adam, but its results are much smoother than Adam-FWI method.
| Comparison of different methods. |
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Problem
There is no doubt that the proposed method is very attractive compared to other methods. However, we have to say that the method in this paper is very irregular. We could get the abstract structure like this:
| A schema for the abstract workflow. |
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We would find that, if we want to get the gradient $\nabla \mathbf{x}$, we have to get the gradient $\nabla \mathbf{y}$ firstly. In another word, the precision of optimizing $\mathbf{x}$ could not exceed that of optimizing $\mathbf{y}$. Hence we would find that, although the results of the proposed method is better (smoother), actually the better results are acquired by reducing the precision of optimizing $\mathbf{y}$. The effect is alike with regularization.
Compare to training $\mathbf{y}$ directly, training $\mathbf{x}$ requires us to adjust much more parameters, while each parameter would only influence the results a little bit. If we learn $\mathbf{y}$, the update happens locally for each iteration. However, if we learn $\mathbf{x}$, since the parameter is in latent space, each iteration would exert influences on all velocity model. Hence, we could know that why the CNN-FWI could get smoother results.


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At least my weight looks like it is, but the problem is that I have no food for today, so I'll probably go eat today at work and in the evening do some shopping that will only include some because of vegetables, tuna, eggs, yogurt and cheese.
It's important to remember that this week I don't eat carbs food no matter what. So I also have to cook peas and carrots to have for the rest of the week. Yesterday I ate green beans but I had stomach pains in the evening, I guess I had to soak the green beans in the water before cooking.
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A colleague sent me a NY Times story on cloud portability today.
There’s lots of interest on both the consumer and provider side in cloud portability. Consumers want to avoid vendor lock-in and providers often want to lock customers in. Among the lock-in approaches are the following:
- Technology-based lock-in: Offer compelling technology that other providers don’t offer, or technology that’s hard to migrate away from.
- Data-based lock-in: Make it hard for customers to move data from one provider to another.
Those are tried and true approaches, but historically they have been overcome. For example, providers copy each others’ technology and create migration tools. Industry defines standards to commoditize individual offerings.
Where cloud portability gets interesting is on the data side. There are two types:
- Data the customer owns
- Data the provider owns, and offers up as a feature of the platform
Provider-owned data is inherently unportable. Or at least it sure seems that way to me.
To the extent that customers depend on provider-proprietary data, there is a real lock-in danger. I think that’s one of the major reasons that lots of companies are excited about the idea of providing cloud services.
Any organization contemplating moving applications to the cloud needs to consider how it wants to deal with this sort of lock-in risk.


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A Requiem for a Team
I once asked an interviewee “Ever work on a high-performing team?” and he answered “Yeah…” and then went on to explain how his team profiled and optimized their code-base all the time to give it very high performance.
That’s not what I meant, but in his defence, I really don’t think many developers have had the opportunity to work on high-performing teams and so they don’t know what they don’t know.
I’ve been developing software professionally for around 15 years and I’ve only worked on a high-performing team once. It was a couple of years ago, and it was awesome. I haven’t been able to find another since, but now I’m a true-believer in the concept of a 10X team.
I suspect that there might be groups out there somewhere who have experience with even higher-performing teams, but I’m certain that I’ve been on enough teams now that high-performing teams are extremely few and far-between. I’m not sure I even know how to create one, but I know one when I see one. I’ve definitely been on teams since that have been close to being high-performing.
The high-performing team is the ultimate win-win in the software development industry because the developers on the team are thrilled to be going into work on a daily basis and the business is thrilled because they’re producing results much faster and more reliably than other teams. Those are really the two essential criteria, in my opinion:
- Is everybody happy to be part of the team?
- Is the team producing results quickly? The first criteria is absolutely necessary for the second to be sustainable. Any business that neglects developer enjoyment is taking a short-sighted path that will eventually negatively impact performance (due to burnout, employee turnover, etc).
So all of this sounds great, but the real mystery is in how to make it happen. I’m not 100% sure that I know. I don’t think I’ve ever even heard of people talking about how to achieve it. This is my shot at describing the recipe though.
The Management
The craziest part of my experience is that the only time I’ve seen a high performance team happen was when the manager of the team had very little software development experience. That seems maddeningly counter-intuitive to me because from a developer’s perspective, one of the most frustrating aspects of software development is having a clueless person telling you what to do and how to do it. It turns out that being clueless in software development can be a huge benefit to being brilliant at software development management though, if the manager is already brilliant with management in general. This manager was definitely brilliant on the management side. Here’s why:
- He hired for attitude over aptitude. He would hire based on peoples’ potential, their attitudes, and their willingness to work hard instead of whether their precise skillset filled a niche that we needed.
- He would cull developers who weren’t team players. It’s not a job anyone wants to do, but it’s sometimes necessary to let people go when they’re not working out. Not doing this results in the rest of the team being miserable.
- He kept the team small, and didn’t move people in or out of it very often. This gives the team the maximum opportunity to form into a cohesive unit.
- He would set clear goals and priorities. No two things would share the same priority (even though I’m sure he was probably secretly flipping a coin when more than one thing was extremely important). That would give the team a clear direction and an ability to focus on what’s most important.
- He never explained a requirement with “because I said so”. This encouraged a culture of questions and feedback which enhanced learning both on the manager’s part and on the team’s part.
- Even when priorities would change, he’d let us complete our current work where possible, so that we wouldn’t have a mess of incomplete work lying around to try to come back to later. I’ve been on teams since where the team has been repeatedly interrupted to the point of not really delivering anything for months.
- He assigned work to the team, and not to individuals, so the team would have to own it collectively. This kept the manager from being the choke-point for “what should I work on next?” questions.
- He didn’t make decisions or solve problems for the team that the team was able to handle themselves (even when individuals on the team would ask).
- He’d bring us the requirements, but leave the solutioning up to us. The result was that the team was largely autonomous and in control of how it accomplished its goals, so we immediately had a newfound sense of responsibility for our work and even pride in it.
- He’d get estimates from us, and not the reverse (ie. deadlines). This way he could inform the business about what the estimated cost and schedule for a given feature was so they could make informed decisions about what features to pursue, rather than just delivering what was finished when the clock ran out.
- He’d actively look for scenarios where the team was not “set up for success” and rectify them. Nothing is worse for team morale than a death march project, even a mini-one.
- He held the team responsible for the performance of individuals. If someone on the team was struggling on a task (daily stand-up meetings make this pretty obvious) without any help from team, he’d ask the team what they were doing to help.
- All of these things created the perfect climate for a high-performing team, but no one person alone (even a great manager) can create a high-performing team on their own.
The Team Member
The individuals on the team were also really impressive to me and no doubt absolutely essential to making the team what it was. Here’s a loose laundry-list of the qualities I witnessed and tried to adhere to myself:
- Members of the team were open, honest, and respectful. They would give each other feedback respectfully and truthfully and would never talk behind each others’ backs. On other teams that I’ve worked on where this wasn’t the practice, team-crushing sub-cliques would form.
- Once a decision has been made by the team, every member of the team would support it (even if he/she was originally opposed) until new evidence is presented. This actually worked well because we would always first take the time to actually listen to and consider everyone’s opinions and ideas.
- Members of the team were results-oriented. “Effort” was never involved in our measure of progress. Software actually delivered according to the team’s standards was our only measure of progress.
- The team would continuously evaluate itself and its practices and try to continuously improve them. We’d have an hour-long meeting every week to talk about how we were doing, and how we could improve (and how we were doing implementing the previous week’s improvements).
- The team would practice collective code ownership, and collective responsibility over all the team’s responsibilities. This is actually a pretty huge deal; if people working on a top priority needed help, they’d ask for it immediately and anyone that could help would. If someone was sick, someone else would take on their current responsibilities automatically. If a build was broken, everyone would drop everything until there was a clear plan to fix it. The morning stand-up meeting would happen at exactly 9 am regardless of whether the manager was there.
- The team would foster cross-functionality as a means of achieving collective code ownership and collective responsibility. What that meant was that members would actively try to teach each other about any particular unique skill-sets they had so that they would be redundant and team members would be better able to take on any task in the work queue.
- The team would be as collaborative as possible. We all sat in a bullpen-like environment where we’d torn down the dividers that were originally erected between us. We’d often pair-program, not only for skill-sharing and mentoring, but also for normal coding tasks, because the boring tasks are less mind-numbing that way and the complicated tasks get better solutions that way.
- In the 5 or 6 teams in our organization at the time, I think our team was by far the fastest, and most capable of handling the more technically diverse and challenging work. No one on the team was a rock-star programmer, but somehow despite that, the team as a whole was really outstanding.
Eventually when this manager moved on, I took the management role and ultimately failed to maintain that environment (partially for a number of reasons that were out of my control, and partially because at the time I didn’t realize the necessary ingredients). I’ve only really learned them since then by watching dysfunctional teams.
It’s a cliche, but in the right environment, the collective can indeed be greater than the sum of its parts.
EDIT (June 2nd, 2014):
I just moved my blog over from wordpress, but I don’t want to lose the comments that I had there, because they’re great and they’re from the team that I was writing about. I’m just going to copy/paste them in here for posterity.
Todd said on May 8, 2013 at 8:12 am: Edit
You nailed it! I’m glad my simple ‘I miss working with you…’ email triggered you to write this thoughtful post.
I was trying to come up with some clever addition to your post but I keep typing and erasing. The one constant thought I whole heatedly believe had the most impact on our teams success is ‘Jaret’. I sure hope he doesn’t read this post, they’ll be no living with him! :)
Tom said on May 10, 2013 at 7:50 pm: Edit
Gregg and Todd, I also miss working with you guys. I do, however, have some pertinent hymns to add to the post. Though, I must first agree that a highly productive team is not formed from a cookie-cutter, but many ingredients do add to the potential success; kudos to Gregg for identifying most.
Management: I’d add that the “ideal” manager is an advocate for the team’s decisions, approach and methodology even if he does not fully understand them. Specifically, if the team can convince, through reason, that they were not smoking crack and that their solution would be suitable and economical (perhaps not in the short-run, but in the long-run), then he would go to bat for them. He’d do this no matter how much counter-pressure was exerted by upper management; clearly JW did this.
Secondly, a culture of experimentation, collaboration, and trust must trickle down from the upper echelons of management down to the lowest levels. Think of this as an approach to lowering entropy. Without this, all middle managers have their hands tied.
Team: Diversity in cultural and technological background is highly advantageous. The simple reason is that varied backgrounds allow differing opinions, analysis and approaches to a solution. I’d be bold enough to state that a homogeneous team is useless at being highly-productive because there is not enough diversity in the “knowledge gene pool” to forge great solutions. On the flip side, too much diversity may be a hindrance as agreement may be hard to come by for the final solution, but somebody should play devils advocate during the initial discussions; this only comes from varied experiences.
As well, team members should feel as if they are creating something of value. Perhaps this is more of a company or management issue, but I believe if people, regardless of their position in a company, feel like they are contributing to a greater good will naturally help their teammates and this will improve the productivity of the team as well as the firm’s bottom line.
I’m sure there are more comments to add, but I need to go have another glass of wine and reminisce :)
Gregg Caines said on May 11, 2013 at 8:12 am: Edit
Ha Good to hear from you Sykora :) I agree with your points. I think JW was set up for success when the “upper echelons” were supportive, and we were all destined for failure once those winds changed and upper management suddenly cared very deeply about the team’s every move on a day-to-day basis. Something makes me think that even if they had a reasonable ratio of right/wrong in their technical decisions, we’d still be irritated to be completely out of control of our own destinies, especially given our history of self-organization. Once the team gets a taste of autonomy, it’s hard for them to go back to command-and-control management. I suspect you of all people would agree. ;)
I agree with you on diversity too. We had a pretty diverse team but I think it worked well because we were respectful and trusted each other. I’ve seen teams since that were much less diverse and would argue disrespectfully about tiny things compared to some of the things that we would (calmly) discuss and (quickly) resolve. I’ll tell you one thing that I know for certain now: egos don’t make good team-mates. ;)
I agree with the “creating something of value” point as well, but I’m less about the value to the customer and more about the engineering craftsmanship. It’s the only way I’ve found myself able to reconcile product decisions I can’t agree with. Maybe one day I’ll have my greasy hands in the product side as well and get a chance to care all the way through though. ;)
tibi said on May 11, 2013 at 9:11 am: Edit
Well that was a nice post. And now I miss the team even more. I think you hit it right on the head (I can’t correctly remember the nail euphemism :–) )…
I’ve been looking for the same dynamics in a team ever since, and I think I’m getting close, but there is always something missing. Perhaps it’s the Tim Horton’s cup arch…
Jeff said on May 11, 2013 at 3:53 pm: Edit
Some great thoughts here Gregg – on the money pretty much across the board. A team is definitely only as good as it’s leadership allows. I’ve been in situations where the core team was incredible and worked together well but ultimately failed for the various reasons you any Tom both mention.
p.s. Hiya boys – hope everyone’s doing well. Did someone say Tim’s?
Gregg Caines said on May 13, 2013 at 9:01 am: Edit
Tibz and Jonesy! Good to see you two are still alive. :)
Chris said on May 14, 2013 at 7:06 am: Edit
It was something special to watch and interact with.
You do not really know what you’ve got until it’s gone, eh? There was a sense of what was happening but probably also a sense that it would fairly easily be recreated.
My current co-workers are tired of hearing how “we would have did it at my last place.” ;) Somehow it is not fair to hold other teams to that yardstick.
JW said on June 10, 2013 at 8:56 am: Edit
So many great things have been said above – and I have to agree with all of it. From my perspective, it really was a dream team. The trust, collaboration and commitment levels in the entire office were exceptional.
I have read numerous books on leadership and when I reflect on that team, we had all the characteristics of a high performing team.
For me, I loved the level of achievement, craftsmanship, and fun that we had. It wasn’t work – even a few of those late nights weren’t too bad because we were doing it together.
Is there a secret sauce to recreate that environment? Not that I have found. However, I have been lucky enough to be part of 4 different high performing teams over my career, and I believe there are things we can all do to help create an environment that could support a high performing team. From there – it is up to the team to choose to be high performing.
I identify well with the Patrick Lencioni’s book “The 5 Dysfunctions of Team”. Although I will not rewrite each of the characteristics from the book, I feel that we need to provide special mention to trust. It is the foundation of a high performing team. Nothing can be built without it. That means we need to know our team mates and their goals. How can we help each other? The more we help and recognize each other, the quicker the team will want to collaborate and achieve greater things.
We are all lucky to have been part of something great. I learned a ton from everyone there and I share those insights in my classes everyday.
Gregg – many thanks for starting this thread.


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TITANIC a capsule review by DeWyNGaLe (John Sylva) Rating: A+
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James Cameron directs this stunning film based upon the ocean liner Titanic, which plummeted to the Atlantic Ocean floor in 1912 after striking an iceberg. Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet star as Jack and Rose, two passengers aboard Titanic, who fall in love after Jack talks Rose from flinging herself off of the massive ship. Jack gambled his way onto Titanic, while Rose is the rich, sophisticated type who is aboard Titanic with family, and fiancee Cal (Billy Zane).
All actors put fourth their best effort, especially Kate Winslet and Gloria Stuart (playing an elderly Rose), who both deserved the Oscars they didn't win at the 70th Annual Academy Awards. Leonardo DiCaprio seems miscast as Jack, but DiCaprio gives a top notch performance as he rehearses his witty, hilarious dialogue with emotion and believability. The screenplay gives each character their deserving screen time, so each character is developed to the point where we could almost write a book about them.
The Titanic ship's exterior and interior are marvelously crafted, not for a second looking fake. After researching the actual Titanic, and viewing numerous photos, the ship looks identical, thanks to cinematographer Russell Carpenter. Adding to the 1910's feel are the beautiful costumes which are shown off mostly by Kate Winslet, and designed by Deborah Lynn Scott.
All of the elements of Titanic work, as in the three hour running time we are told one of the saddest stories of all time, a well developed, believable love story, and informed about the wreckage and afterschock of Titanic. The three hour running time goes by in a flash, as Titanic had me deeply involved with its developed characters and massive settings, as James Cameron directs and writes his film to perfection, and the United States must agree with me, as Titanic went on to gross 601 million dollars at the box office.
After the film's emotional opening credits, in which we see actual footage of those aboard Titanic in 1912, I knew this film would stand among the greatest of all time. Titanic contains some of the most memorable, heartbreaking scenes I have ever been witnessed to, which make up the entire last hour or so of the film. Titanic is a titanic of a movie, a haunting, chilling film, as I feel the pain of those aboard Titanic as they held on for their lives.
The Bottom Line- Legendary filmmaking. One of the most dramatic, memorable movie experiences ever.
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Half-Life Alyx Minimum PC Requirements Revealed; i5-7500/Ryzen 5 1600 With GTX 1060/RX580 Required
by Aernout van de VeldeThe Half-Life Alyx minimum PC requirements have been revealed by developer Valve.
Announced last week, Alyx is Valve’s upcoming VR-installment in the Half-Life series. On the game’s Steam page, Valve has now listed Alyx’s minimum PC specs and from the looks of it, some will be needing to update their setup in order to be able to play this new Half-Life installment.
According to Valve, a minimum of 12GB of RAM alongside an i5-7500/Ryzen 5 1600 CPU is required to be able to fire up Alyx. In addition, players will need at least an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 or AMD RX 580 GPU with 6GB of VRAM.
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As Alessio Palumbo already covered, the game can already be pre-ordered with a 10% discount through its Steam Page.
Half-Life: Alyx is Valve’s VR return to the Half-Life series. It’s the story of an impossible fight against a vicious alien race known as the Combine, set between the events of Half-Life and Half-Life 2.
Playing as Alyx Vance, you are humanity’s only chance for survival. The Combine’s control of the planet since the Black Mesa incident has only strengthened as they corral the remaining population in cities. Among them are some of Earth’s greatest scientists: you and your father, Dr. Eli Vance.
As founders of a fledgling resistance, you’ve continued your clandestine scientific activity—performing critical research, and building invaluable tools for the few humans brave enough to defy the Combine.
Every day, you learn more about your enemy, and every day you work toward finding a weakness.
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BEDROOMS AND HALLWAYS (M). (NewVision) Director: Rose Troche Stars: Kevin McKidd, Tom Hollander, Hugo Weaving, James Purefoy, Jennifer Ehle, Julie Graham, Simon Callow, Harriet Walter, Christopher Fulford, Paul Higgins Running time: 96 minutes.
 This has been the central theme of a number of recent comedies, such as The Opposite Of Sex, The Object Of My Affection and Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss, which have also created sympathetic central characters. While Bedrooms And Hallways taps into the same premise, it doesn't really offer a lot that is particularly new. However, what this engaging and entertaining British sex comedy lacks in originality, it more than makes up for with a sparkling wit and style.
Leo (Trainspotting's Kevin McKidd) is gay, and on his 30th birthday he despairs of ever finding the right man and settling into a stable relationship. His gay flat mate Darren (Tom Hollander, recently seen in The Very Thought Of You) and next door neighbour Angie (Julie Graham) offer advice. However, Darren is busy trying to sort out his relationship with Jeremy (Aussie actor Hugo Weaving, from Priscilla, Queen Of The Desert, etc), a real estate agent who likes to have kinky sex in his client's houses.
Leo's business partner takes him along to a men's therapy group, hoping that it will help him work out his lack of self confidence. Instead, during one bonding session, Leo blurts out that he is attracted to the handsome Brendan (James Purefoy, a regular with the Royal Shakespeare Company), another member of this mixed up group. Brendan has just ended a long relationship with Sally, and is confused and vulnerable. Is Leo the right man to help him over the emotional strain of his break-up? The question of whether or not Brendan is gay also brings an element of comic suspense to the film. Then Sally (Jennifer Ehle, from Wilde, etc) enters the picture, and Leo is surprised to realise that she is an old friend from school days.
The script from Robert Farrar, who wrote the disappointing spy spoof The Man Who Knew Too Little, is sophisticated and crackles with witty dialogue and some quite funny situations. Troche directs with flair and she keeps things moving along at a brisk pace. Some elements of the film are reminiscent of Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss, and Bedrooms And Hallways has something of the same flavour and broadly appealing humour. However, the characters here have more depth and seem less like clichés, and the overall quality of the writing and production is superior.
The wonderful ensemble cast deliver solid performances that bring these characters to life, and seem to be having a lot of fun. It is Hollander who gets the best lines and effortlessly steals scenes. Simon Callow is also memorable as Keith, the therapist, while Weaving brings a sly sense of humour to his role.
 As with many recent gay themed comedies, Bedrooms And Hallways is non-judgmental and broadly appealing. It's sly sense of humour should strike a chord with audiences.
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Controversial "Mtumba" Bus Purchase in Bungoma
by Collins NyamungaBungoma MCAs are seeking the removal of the county assembly service board over a purchase that was marred by corruption allegations.
The county legislators drawn from both the majority and minority camps on Friday, November 22, called for the immediate resignation of all top assembly officials over the ridiculous purchase of a bus they described as mtumba (second-hand).
The embattled officials include majority leader Florence Fulano, minority leader Francis Chepmion, the clerk to the assembly and speaker Emmanuel Situma.
The legislators had raised the issue during a Tuesday session and demanded answers over the matter. Kimaeti MCA, Eric Wapang'ana told journalists how they found out that the newly-purchased assembly bus was indeed not a new one.
“This is a Lorry, not a bus. It was brought here after purchase but we are not satisfied with it.
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“According to the response by the county assembly service board, the bus specifications should have been a 33- seater. But the bus delivered is a 28-seater,” Mbakalo Ward MCA Bethuel Mwambu asserted.


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Man United receive possible boost in bid to sign Bruno Fernandes – report
Sporting Lisbon's financial struggles could boost Man United's pursuit of Bruno Fernandes, according to a report
by Transfer AgentManchester United could sign Bruno Fernandes as Sporting Lisbon look to raise funds to clear their debts of around £57m, according to a report.
Portuguese media outlet O Jogo, as quoted by the Daily Mail, is reporting that Sporting Lisbon are prepared to sell Fernandes in a £65m deal in order to clear their debt.
The same article states that Manchester United are keen to sign a creative midfielder to fill the void left by Ander Herrera and Marouane Fellaini over the past year.
According to the same story, the Red Devils could face competition from Tottenham Hotspur, given that Spurs are facing the prospect of losing Christian Eriksen.
Fernandes has scored five goals and has made five assists in 10 appearances in the Portuguese top flight this season to maintain his prolific form for Sporting.
The 25-year-old was linked to Manchester United and Tottenham in the summer after the Portugal international netted 20 times and created 11 goals in 33 games.
Manchester United and Tottenham have both made disappointing starts to the Premier League season to leave them well off the pace in the race to secure a top-four finish.
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Struts provides several Maven Archetypes that create working applications based on a template.
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The Starter archetype creates a more featured application using several common technologies used in production applications.
The Portlet blank archetype creates a minimally populated JSR 168 portlet.
The Portlet database archetype creates a simple JSR 168 portlet that displays the contents of a database table.
From a working directory for your project, run the following command:
mvn archetype:create -DgroupId=tutorial \
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| groupId | The id for the group the application belongs to. Usually is the root package for applications in your company, e.g. com.mycompany |
| artifactId | The id for the project |
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| remoteRepositories | A list of remote repositories that contain the archetype. If deployed to the standard Maven repository or locally, this is optional |
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
by Mark Twain
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is set in the 1840's in the fictitious town of St. Petersburg, Missouri, where Tom lives with his deceased mother's sister, Aunt Polly, and his half-brother, Sid. After Tom plays hooky from school, he is made to whitewash Aunt Polly's fence as punishment, but persuades his friends to do it for him.
Tom's real trouble begins when he and Huck Finn witness a murder committed by Injun Joe. They swear to never tell, and the wrong man, Muff Potter, is accused of the crime. Tom, Huck, and a friend run away to be pirates, but become aware that the whole town is searching for their bodies. Each of the boys make an appearance at their own funerals, where they are greeted with open arms. As Muff Potter's trial begins, Tom is overcome with guilt and testifies against Injun Joe, who quickly flees the courtroom.
Later, on a class field trip to a cave, Tom and his love interest, Becky Thatcher, get lost. As they run out of food and candles searching for a way out, Tom and Becky come upon Injun Joe, who is using the cave as a hideout. Tom finds a way out just as the search party is giving up. The town rejoices and Judge Thatcher, Becky's father, has the cave sealed, unknowingly trapping Injun Joe inside where he starves to death.
Source: Twain, M. (1876). The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Hartford, CT: American Publishing Co.
- Preface
- Author's preface.
- Chapter 1
- Aunt Polly catches Tom misbehaving, but finds it hard to punish her late sisters child. Tom's fight with a stranger in town causes him to temporarily lose his freedom. The reader is introduced to Tom's half brother Sid.
- Chapter 2
- Tom finds a way to turn a profit from his punishment.
- Chapter 3
- Tom tries to attract the attention of Becky Thatcher. Tom is wrongly accused and punished by Aunt Polly when Sid has an accident, causing him to evaluate his importance in the world.
- Chapter 4
- Tom trades his profits from the whitewashing for tickets in order to win a prize at church. Tom is introduced to Judge Thatcher.
- Chapter 5
- The church breaks out is a sudden commotion when a dog has a run in with a beetle.
- Chapter 6
- Tom attempts to stay home from school, with painful and unexpected results. While going to school Tom runs into his friend Huckleberry Finn.
- Chapter 7
- Tom is punished for being late to school resulting in him meeting Becky Thatcher. Tom and Becky's lunch together does not end well for Tom.
- Chapter 8
- Tom plays hooky from school feeling bad about his lunch with Becky. Tom runs into his friend Joe Harper.
- Chapter 9
- Tom and Huck witness a commotion in the graveyard.
- Chapter 10
- Tom and Huck run to town. Fearing for their lives they take an oath to never reveal what they have seen and promise behave from then on.
- Chapter 11
- News of Dr. Robinson's murder spreads throughout St. Petersberg. Both Tom and Huck are greatly troubled by the arrest of an innocent man.
- Chapter 12
- Becky Thatcher's illness causes a change in Tom's behavior, which leads Aunt Polly to believe he is ill. Tom continues to seek the attention of Becky.
- Chapter 13
- Tom, feeling low and friendless, decides that he would be better suited to a life of crime. The gang of Tom, Huck, and Joe plan to meet that night.
- Chapter 14
- The "Pirates" borrow a raft, intending to camp at a nearby island. The boys are alarmed at the news of a drowning.
- Chapter 15
- Tom, having returned home temporarily, overhears his Aunt Polly speaking with Mrs. Harper. Tom, Joe, and Huck continue to pursue their new life as pirates.
- Chapter 16
- A sudden and fierce storm causes the boys to reexamine their decisions.
- Chapter 17
- St. Petersburg prepares for a somber day. Tom, Huck, and Joe's sudden and unexpected arrival changes the mood of the congregation.
- Chapter 18
- Tom and Joe find they are now held in high regard by their peers. Becky, feeling rejected by Tom, attempts to make him jealous.
- Chapter 19
- Aunt Polly confronts Tom for his dishonesty after paying a visit to Mrs. Harper. Aunt Polly discovers Tom's note. Tom's attempt to reconcile with Becky do not go as planned.
- Chapter 20
- While at school, Tom catches Becky in the act. Becky is not as satisfied by Tom's punishment as she had hoped. Tom decides to take the blame for something he did not do, receiving adoration from Becky in return.
- Chapter 21
- While Mr. Dobbins plans for the school's final exam, the boys form a plan to get back at Mr. Dobbins.
- Chapter 22
- Tom continues to look for distractions. Tom finds himself suddenly ill.
- Chapter 23
- With the start of Muff Potter's trial, Huck and Tom remember Muff's kindness.
- Chapter 24
- In court, the defense attorney calls forth a new witness. The real murderer makes an unexpected escape, while Muff finds himself embraced by the townspeople. With Injun Joe still on the loose, Tom continues to worry.
- Chapter 25
- The boys search for buried treasure leads them to a haunted house.
- Chapter 26
- The boys enter the haunted house and overhear a devious plan.
- Chapter 27
- Tom and Huck continue to search for treasure.
- Chapter 28
- Huck and Tom wait patiently for a chance to act.
- Chapter 29
- Becky returns from her vacation. Huck and Tom continue to hunt for treasure. Huck overhears a sinister plan for revenge.
- Chapter 30
- Huck seeks help in order to protect the Widow Douglas. Tom and Becky are discovered missing.
- Chapter 31
- Tom and Becky continue to explore.
- Chapter 32
- Tom and Becky are found and the cave is sealed off, presumably with Injun Joe inside.
- Chapter 33
- Injun Joe is finally found, causing Tom to feel a sense of relief. Tom and Huck return to the cave.
- Chapter 34
- Tom reveals a secret at Huck's surprise party.
- Chapter 35
- The disclosure of the buried treasure put the town in a frenzy. Huck and Tom find that there newfound wealth has changed their lives.
- Conclusion
- The author's conclusion.


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**line eater, the**: n. obs.
1. [Usenet] A bug in some now-obsolete versions of the netnews software
that used to eat up to BUFSIZ bytes of the article text. The bug was
triggered by having the text of the article start with a space or tab.
This bug was quickly personified as a mythical creature called the line
eater, and postings often included a dummy line of line eater food.
Ironically, line eater ‘food’ not beginning with a space or tab wasn't
actually eaten, since the bug was avoided; but if there *was* a space or
tab before it, then the line eater would eat the food *and* the
beginning of the text it was supposed to be protecting. The practice of
sacrificing to the line eater continued for some time after the bug had
been `*nailed to the wall* <../N/nailed-to-the-wall.html>`__, and is
still humorously referred to. The bug itself was still occasionally
reported to be lurking in some mail-to-netnews gateways as late as 1991.
2. See `*NSA line eater* <../N/NSA-line-eater.html>`__.
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Deputies: Naples man arrested for cutting pregnant woman and trying to rob her
by WFTX Digital TeamNAPLES, Fla. — According to deputies, a man was arrested for cutting a pregnant woman's hand and attempting to rob her food stand.
It happened behind the Green Store, located at 11339 Tamiami Trail East, Friday night.
Deputies say, Kyle Morgan, 26, was identified by the victim and her husband. Collier County Sheriff's Office says the victim was working at the food stand when she heard a knock at the back door. She opened it anticipating her husband, but it was the suspect holding a knife directed at her stomach and demanding money.
At this point, the victim's husband arrived on the scene and confronted the suspect. The suspect began to wave the knife at the husband and fled the area in their truck. Deputies searched the area and located the suspect.
The suspect told deputies he was at the scene, but denied any involvement in the robbery, and claimed he 'blacked out' after the victim's husband struck him.
Deputies arrested Morgan for attempted robbery, aggravated battery, grand theft auto, and violation of state probation.


Here you can find a complete Ruuvi Gateway configuration guide for advanced users.
Firmware version information can be found at the bottom of each page:
There are two version numbers:
If you want to configure your Ruuvi Gateway to use a static IP address
please uncheck Use DHCP after selecting the Ethernet connection option.
The following fields are required for this configuration:
A hidden Wi-Fi network can be used for connecting your Ruuvi Gateway to internet.
This setting is shown in the Wi-Fi Network configuration page under Advanced.
Select Connect Manually to see the following required fields:
It is always recommended to keep your Ruuvi Gateway up-to-date.
Your firmware version and update availability will be checked on the Software Update page
during the configuration process.
If an update is available, you will be offered to install it from the default location
(recommended).
Alternatively, you can choose your own location for updates by checking **Specify a URL that
contains required firmware update binaries under Advanced**.
If you want to use a previous release version, you can provide a link
to GitHub
https://github.com/ruuvi/ruuvi.gateway_esp.c/releases/download/<VERSION_TAG>
where you need to replace <VERSION_TAG> with the version number you need.
For example:
https://github.com/ruuvi/ruuvi.gateway_esp.c/releases/download/v1.13.0
Here you will find a list of the releases available for download:
https://github.com/ruuvi/ruuvi.gateway_esp.c/releases
If you want to use a developer build, you can provide a link to the Jenkins build server
https://jenkins.ruuvi.com/job/ruuvi_gateway_esp-PR/<BUILD>/artifact/build/
where you need to replace <BUILD> with the build number you need.
For example:
https://jenkins.ruuvi.com/job/ruuvi_gateway_esp-PR/805/artifact/build/
To start the firmware update process press the Update button.
The firmware update process takes a few minutes,and you will see the progress on the screen.
It's important to make sure that your Ruuvi Gateway remains powered during this time.
You can also skip this step by pressing Continue without updating .
Your Ruuvi Gateway has the ability to automatically check for and install new firmware updates
using a scheduler. We recommend that you select Auto Update , which accepts new versions for
installation 2 weeks after the release date.
Advanced users can also select a special Auto Update for beta-testers mode that accepts new
firmware versions and automatically installs them as they become available.
Selecting Manual updates only disables automatic firmware updates for your gateway.
The automatic update scheduler allows you to specify when you want automatic updates to be
fetched and installed. You can schedule updates to be checked by:
You can configure the gateway to download its configuration from a remote server (checking for
an updated configuration will be performed with a set period).
You just need to specify the base URL from where the configuration file with the Gateway settings
can be downloaded.
If you specify a folder name as the base URL (any URL that does not end with '.json'), it will first
attempt to read the configuration file for the Gateway from <GW_MAC>.json (e.g. AABBCCDDEEFF.json).
If this file fails, it will attempt to read the overall configuration from gw_cfg.json.
The configuration file can also be generated dynamically by the server, which requires the server to
analyse the HTTP header 'ruuvi_gw_mac', which contains the MAC address in the format XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:
XX.
After entering the base URL, press the Check button to validate the URL and check that the
configuration file exists. Next, after pressing the Download button, the new configuration will be
downloaded, which completes the configuration process. After that, Ruuvi Gateway will periodically
check for configuration updates and download them. The polling period is set in the configuration
file, which is downloaded from the server.
The gateway configuration file on the remote server must contain at least the following attributes:
minutes)
Example of minimal gw_cfg.json:
```json
{
"remote_cfg_use": true,
"remote_cfg_url": " http://<IP_ADDRESS>:7000/ ",
"remote_cfg_refresh_interval_minutes": 10,
"remote_cfg_auth_type": "no"
}
```
All configuration attributes not specified in the configuration file will retain their previous
value after the new configuration is loaded from the remote server.
Configuration downloads with basic HTTP authentication are also supported:
Example of corresponding minimal gw_cfg.json:
```json
{
"remote_cfg_use": true,
"remote_cfg_url": " http://<IP_ADDRESS>:7000/ ",
"remote_cfg_refresh_interval_minutes": 10,
"remote_cfg_auth_type": "basic",
"remote_cfg_auth_basic_user": "user1",
"remote_cfg_auth_basic_pass": "password1"
}
```
Or bearer authentication (using a token):
Example of corresponding minimal gw_cfg.json:
```json
{
"remote_cfg_use": true,
"remote_cfg_url": " http://<IP_ADDRESS>:7000/ ",
"remote_cfg_refresh_interval_minutes": 10,
"remote_cfg_auth_type": "bearer",
"remote_cfg_auth_bearer_token": "my_secret_token_123"
}
```
You can restrict or allow access to your Ruuvi Gateway from the local network.
By default, the access is Password protected using the default password (unique device ID which
is printed on the bottom of the Ruuvi Gateway):
If you want to configure a custom Username and password , select **Protected with a
custom password**:
You can also prohibit access by password by selecting No remote configurable or allow access
without a password by selecting Remote configurable without a password .
It is also possible to configure access to the Ruuvi Gateway from LAN using bearer
authentication (under Advanced settings ):
If you set a token for read-only access, you can read data from the "/history" and
"/metrics" endpoints, or read the gateway configuration. To be able to configure the gateway
programmatically, a full (read/write) access token must be enabled.
Examples:
```shell
curl -v http://<RUUVI_GW_IP>/history
-H "Authorization: Bearer Uj+4tj24unVekco/lTLTRyxUfv1J8M6U+sbNsKTWRr0="
```
```shell
curl -v http://<RUUVI_GW_IP>/metrics
-H "Authorization: Bearer Uj+4tj24unVekco/lTLTRyxUfv1J8M6U+sbNsKTWRr0="
```
'ruuvi.json':
```shell
curl -v http://<RUUVI_GW_IP>/ruuvi.json
-H "Authorization: Bearer Uj+4tj24unVekco/lTLTRyxUfv1J8M6U+sbNsKTWRr0="
--output ruuvi.json
```
from the file './ruuvi.json' (note that the network part of the configuration will be ignored):
```shell
curl -v http://<RUUVI_GW_IP>/ruuvi.json
-H "Authorization: Bearer 1SDrQH1FkH+pON0GsSjt2gYeMSP02uYqfuu7LWdaBvY="
-d @./ruuvi.json
```
```shell
curl -v http://<RUUVI_GW_IP>/fw_update.json
-H "Authorization: Bearer 1SDrQH1FkH+pON0GsSjt2gYeMSP02uYqfuu7LWdaBvY="
-H 'Content-Type: application/json'
-d '{"url":"https://my_server.com:7000/gw_firmware/"}'
```
gateway and set the remote server URL):
```shell
curl -v http://<RUUVI_GW_IP>/gw_cfg_download
-H "Authorization: Bearer 1SDrQH1FkH+pON0GsSjt2gYeMSP02uYqfuu7LWdaBvY=" -d ''
```
Ruuvi Gateway connects to the Ruuvi Cloud by default. However, you can configure it to use an HTTP
or MQTT server to route data from your nearby sensors to a custom location instead.
You can enable or disable sending data to Ruuvi Cloud:
Or configure to send data to your own server via HTTP/HTTPS (sending to both Ruuvi Cloud and your
own server is not supported yet):
Also, you can enable relaying data to MQTT server:
In the Statistics section, you can configure the sending of statistics to Ruuvi Cloud or your own
server, or disable the sending of statistics:
If the default set of NTP servers is not accessible, then you can specify the addresses of other NTP
servers or use DHCP to obtain a list of NTP servers automatically. If the Ruuvi Gateway does not
have access to the Internet and NTP, you can disable time synchronisation, but in this case, relayed
messages will not contain timestamps.
To configure NTP servers you need to enable advanced settings in the Cloud Options :
After that, you will be able to choose how to synchronise the time:
To get access to these settings you need to enable advanced settings in the Cloud Options :
By default, Ruuvi Gateway scans only for Ruuvi sensors (filtered by BLE SIG member ID 0x0499)
Also, you can enable Bluetooth long range (also known as Coded PHY).
It is a new mode introduced in Bluetooth Version 5.0 to extend the range of Bluetooth devices from
30-100 feet to ranges of 1 kilometer and beyond.
Note : Most existing devices only transmit on 1 Mbps PHY. 1 Mbps and Coded PHYs modulations are
scanned sequentially, so scanning both PHYs will result in at least 50% packet loss on one of the
PHYs.
If you want to relay data from more than just Ruuvi sensors, you need to select the "**All
(including third party beacons)**" option and adjust the scanned PHYs, Bluetooth channels used
and the ability to use extended payload (BLE extended advertising):
Scan extended payloads . Both Coded PHY and 1 Mbps PHY may have a primary advertisement that
tells that there is going to be extended data on a secondary channel. If "Use extended payload" is
enabled, the secondary payload will be scanned.
Coded PHY supports only Coded extended payload, 1 Mbps PHY supports scanning at 2 Mbps and 1 Mbps
PHY extended payloads.
Use channel . Each enabled BLE channel is scanned sequentially for a minimum of 7000 ms per
channel, for a total of 21000 ms if all 3 channels are enabled. At least one channel must be active.